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20102024
most citedCharacterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

1.3k citations · 7.1k across the 48 of their papers we have counts for

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48 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

GEO600 beam splitter thermal compensation system: new design and commissioning

Séverin Nadji, Holger Wittel, Nikhil Mukund +8

Gravitational waves have revolutionised the field of astronomy by providing scientists with a new way to observe the universe and gain a better understanding of exotic objects like…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Characterization and evasion of backscattered light in the squeezed-light enhanced gravitational wave interferometer GEO 600

Fabio Bergamin, James Lough, Emil Schreiber +15

Squeezed light is injected into the dark port of gravitational wave interferometers, in order to reduce the quantum noise. A fraction of the interferometer output light can reach t…

physics.ins-det2023★ 1 cited

First demonstration of neural sensing and control in a kilometer-scale gravitational wave observatory

Nikhil Mukund, James Lough, Aparna Bisht +9

Suspended optics in gravitational wave (GW) observatories are susceptible to alignment perturbations, particularly slow drifts over time, due to variations in temperature and seism…

gr-qc2021★ 98 cited

Direct limits for scalar field dark matter from a gravitational-wave detector

Sander M. Vermeulen, Philip Relton, Hartmut Grote +20

The nature of dark matter remains unknown to date; several candidate particles are being considered in a dynamically changing research landscape. Scalar field dark matter is a prom…

physics.ins-det2020★ 117 cited

First demonstration of 6 dB quantum noise reduction in a kilometer scale gravitational wave observatory

James Lough, Emil Schreiber, Fabio Bergamin +14

Photon shot noise, arising from the quantum-mechanical nature of the light, currently limits the sensitivity of all the gravitational wave observatories at frequencies above one ki…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

Bilinear noise subtraction at the GEO 600 observatory

Nikhil Mukund, James Lough, Christoph Affeldt +8

Longitudinal control signals used to keep gravitational wave detectors at a stable operating point are often affected by modulations from test mass misalignments leading to an elev…